The first phase of Malabar Exercise to be held in Bay of Bengal between November 3, 2020 and November 6, 2020.
The navies of India, Japan, US and Australia will participate in the exercise.
The second phase of the exercise to be held between November 17, 2020 and November 20, 2020.
During the exercise, the countries will conduct anti-warfare and anti-submarine operations, seamanship evolution, cross-deck flying and weapon firing exercise.
The Indian Navy will deploy a number of key platforms like off-shore patrol vessel Sukanya, frigate Shivalik, fleet support ship Shakti and submarine Sindhuraj.
Also, the Dornier maritime patrol aircraft, long range maritime patrol aircraft P-81 and the advance jet trainer Hawk are to be deployed.
The exercise began in 1992 between India and US in the Indian Ocean. Later in 2015, Japan became the permanent member of the exercise.
In 2019, the exercise was held in Japan and in Philippine sea in 2018.
